Nigeria’s telecommunications regulator has begun rewriting one of the industry’s most important pricing frameworks as inflation, naira depreciation, 5G investments and the growing dominance of WhatsApp and other internet-based platforms reshape the economics of mobile communications.
This is even as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Tuesday launched a comprehensive review of Mobile Termination Rates (MTR), the wholesale charges operators pay one another to complete calls across networks.
The rates, fixed at N3.90 per minute for established operators and N4.70 for new entrants since 2018, have remained unchanged despite dramatic shifts in operating costs and consumer behaviour.
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The review could become one of the most consequential regulatory exercises in Nigeria’s telecom sector in nearly a decade because it sits at the intersection of competition, investment, network expansion and consumer pricing.
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